Solar Wind Interaction with Non-Magnetic Planets

这项赠款继续支持太阳风的研究 与非磁性太阳系天体如金星的相互作用， 火星和彗星 这一领域的研究有助于更广泛的 和太阳系行星的比较理解， 地球上的，一般的关系。 日地物理学是 研究太阳如何影响地球/行星 环境 太阳辐射，在可见光和 光谱的紫外线区域，是最明显的手段， 太阳和行星之间的相互作用，但我们现在认识到， 太阳风也强烈地影响着 地球的大气层、电离层和磁层， 星球 每个行星的物理环境 不同的行星环境相互作用 与太阳风不同。 研究这些相互作用 共同地--比较磁层的主题-- 非线性地增加要学习的数量和质量， 我们的理解。 这里计划的工作将把在 金星大气层与火星大气层的对比。 特别是 火星的电离层将被模拟。

This grant continues support for studies of the solar wind interaction with non-magnetic solar system bodies such as Venus, Mars, and comets. Research in this area contributes to a broader and comparative understanding of solar-planetary, and solar- terrestrial, relations in general. Solar-terrestrial physics is the study of how the sun affects the terrestrial/planetary environment. Solar radiation, in both the visible and ultraviolet regions of the spectrum, is the most obvious means of interaction between the sun and the planets, but we now recognize that the solar wind also strongly influences the upper atmospheres, ionospheres, and magnetospheres of the earth and planets. The physical environment of each of the planets is different and accordingly each planetary environment interacts differently with the solar wind. Studying these interactions collectively -- the subject of comparative magnetospheres -- increases nonlinearly the amount to be learned and the quality of our understanding. The work planned here will transfer the knowledge gained on the Venusian Atmosphere to that of Mars. In particular, the ionosphere of Mars will be modelled.